"The subsequent historical records seem just like those legendary tales. The Great Ancestor of the Yao Dynasty created granular gunpowder, fashioned guns out of bamboo tubes. Three hundred men went out to attack Haiping Lake, plundering, killing one thousand five hundred stationed troops. The second time, eight hundred went to forcefully attack a county city, and the third time, two thousand five hundred faced off directly against Prince An's top general, Xiong Lin, decisively defeating Xiong Lin's two thousand cavalry and eight thousand infantry..."